Chart lists are for organizing your charts in logical ways, like "family", "coworkers", "clients", and so on. You can have as many as you like. One chart can be in many lists, as necessary to properly store that chart for your needs.

You can make your own chart list styles. That means you choose the columns, and most appearance elements including font matters and coloring. That way you can have a visual way of separating your various chart lists- one color for family, another clients, etc., possibly. We believe the appearance of something you look at a great amount of time, should be to your liking, and in general nicely created.

So factually, the reason we created this nice interface, was so that while we were working on jyotish software ourselves, we would be looking at something nice, because it matters to us here at DMI.

You get to choose which columns are included in your chart lists. See, you choose from the column on the left. What you cannot see here is that it's a long list of choices, so you can make interesting and useful chart lists. On the tab not shown there is all the choices for setting the font, size, color scheme, etc.

This picture tells a few stories. First, notice that several charts are hilited, and that a menu is pulled down. That menu shows "Saved Window Styles". These are arrangements you make of the chart window, which is very flexible, so saving your creations is helpful. You'll see.

So what's happening here, is the user is about to open a window each of the 3 hilited charts, and that window style is the one called "Yellow to Purple North Rasi 1".

Which looks like:

The chart at right has labels under the planets, showing in this case the Nakshatra names. You can choose from a large list of label choices on the pallette which controls chart windows, which you'll see later. Of course you can have the degrees. You can print then of course as well, and flip between them rapidly while looking at the chart. These are the label choices:

No labels
Deg-Rx
Deg-Min-Rx
Deg-Min-Sec-Rx
Nakshatra Name
Nakshatra Lord Name
Rasi Nakshatra /Pada
Rasi Nakshatra Guna
Rasi AV Bindus
Owns-Ex-Deb in Vargas
Rasi Friendship
Friends-Enemies In Vargas
Trin-Kend-Dust In Vargas
Earth-Water-Fire-Air in Vargas
Male-Female in Vargas
Cardinal-Fixed-Common in Vargas
Shad Bala Total Ratio
Bhava Bala Total Ratio
Vimshopak Total Ratio
Drekkana Body Part
House Twelfth Part Meaning
Planetary Age
Jaimini Karaka
Nakshatra Body Part
Nakshatra Caste
Gana Deva,Manush,Rakshas
Aim Dharma Artha Kama Moksha
Nakshatra Symbol
Nakshatra God
Navamsa Sign
Navamsa Dispositor

It's a good start at least.

This is the file menu found inside each chart list window you have open. Here is where you can create a new chart, and open features for the chart(s) you have hilited. For example, you could hilite 4 charts and select "Edit Birth Data", and all four charts will open a birth data entry window, so your screen would look like this:

In the computer world today, this opening of many copies of the same window is referred to as "instantiating" the window multiple times, and those windows are called "instances" of that window type, or "class". So here the birth data entry window class has been instantiated 4 times.

This menu serves up more than just birth data, check out some of the other things that it relates directly to the list of charts you are working on, or the selected charts therein. Notice the Compare Chart Tags feature is here. That feature has been sped up by hundreds fold. You can now run hundreds of charts in seconds. That's way better than it was before.

The "Features" window

TWhen you select (see above menu) "Features", the window at right appears. It lists things you can open on a per chart basis.

These each represent a feature window. You can check any or all of them. You can save your selection as a default grouping, that opens when you double click on a chart.

Notice at the top, see that it knows how many charts you have hilited. It's reminding you that it will operate on all four.

If you check 4 feature windows, for four charts, you would have 16 windows open on your screen, which might look something like:

This is one of the main new features of Jyotish Studio, Version 3, which was previously known as "Goravani Jyotish". That you can open multiple charts, or people, at once, and have as you see here- all separate, and done up in windows the way other programs work. The standard interface is more fully implemented in this version than in any prior.

Tabs, Buttons, Sliders, What's Up!?

It's true. If you look closely you'll see a number of new controls are present on various windows. The interface has changed and improved quite a bit. And this version runs native on OSX for Mac Users, and XP for Windows users.